The new swimming phenomenon destroys the record of César Cielo in 2009 with a swimsuit that is now banned
Swimming is enjoying its new phenomenon. In a month’s time he will be 18 years old, he still has a physicist in training and he will not stop writing history. His name is David Popovici and he is Romanian. The swimmer from Bucharest was crowned European speed king in a grand manner on Saturday: he set the world record in the 100-meter freestyle, the queens event, breaking the record held by Brazilian César Cielo since 2009 and was achieved . wearing a bathing suit is now prohibited.
Popovici had already broken the European distance record on Friday by coming under 47 seconds. In the final he defeated Hungarian Kristof Milak with a time of 46 seconds and 91 hundredths after a last post to remember. Popovici owes much of his success to the competition from Milak. The Hungarian started the test refugee. In the 50 meters, the Romanian was second (22.74), two hundredths behind the Frenchman Maxime Grousset. In the second length, Popovici scored 24.12 and cut by 5 hundredths the record set by Cielo, who also set his record in Rome, during the 2009 World Cup when Popovici was still a child.
The young Romanian, born in 2004, is the new star of the Pole. It doesn’t stop with collecting titles. In July he was a three-time European youth champion (50, 100 and 200 free) and youth world record holder in the 200 free at the World Championships in Budapest. He finished fourth at the Tokyo Olympics in the 200 freestyle. And in June, at the World Cup in Budapest, he became the second swimmer in history to win the 100m and 200m free finals. The speed is yours.
Popovici has left César Cielo (46.91) and American Caeleb Dressel (46.91) behind in the 100 meters. And in the 200 meters he is alone behind Paul Biedermann, Michael Phelps and Yannick Agnel. At the age of 17 and with a body equipped as standard to move in the water, the young Romanian swimmer is called to break historical records.
Source: La Verdad
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